Title 2C, Title 2C: THE NEW JERSEY CODE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE

2C:33-12. Maintaining a nuisance A person is guilty of maintaining a nuisance when: a. By conduct either unlawful in itself or unreasonable under all the circumstances, he knowingly or recklessly creates or maintains a condition which endangers the safety or health of a considera…

2C:33-12.1. Abating nuisance 2C:33-12.1. Abating Nuisance. a. In addition to the penalty imposed in case of conviction under N.J.S.2C:33-12 or under section 2 of P.L.1995, c.167 (C.2C:33-12.2), the court may order the immediate abatement of the nuisance, and for that purpose may …

2C:33-12.2. Sexually oriented business, nuisance; crime 2. a. As used in this act: (1) "Sexually oriented business" means: (a) A commercial establishment which as one of its principal business purposes offers for sale, rental, or display any of the following: Books, magazines, pe…

2C:33-13 Smoking in public. 2C:33-13. Smoking in Public. a. Any person who smokes or carries lighted tobacco in or upon any bus or other public conveyance, except group charter buses, specially marked railroad smoking cars, limousines or livery services, and, when the driver is t…

2C:33-13.1 Providing certain items to a person under 21 years of age, petty disorderly persons offense. 3. a. A person who delivers, sells, or gives to a person under 21 years of age any cigarettes made of tobacco or of any other matter or substance which can be smoked, or any ci…

2C:33-14 Interference with transportation. 2C:33-14. a. Interference with Transportation. A person is guilty of interference with transportation if the person purposely or knowingly: (1) casts, shoots or throws anything at, against or into any vehicle, including, but not limited …

2C:33-14.1 Vandalizing railroad crossing devices, property; grading of offenses; graffiti. 1. a. Any person who purposely, knowingly or recklessly defaces, damages, obstructs, removes or otherwise impairs the operation of any railroad crossing warning signal or protection device,…

2C:33-15 Possession, consumption by persons under legal age; penalty. 1. a. (1) Any person under the legal age to purchase alcoholic beverages, or under the legal age to purchase cannabis items, who knowingly possesses without legal authority or who knowingly consumes any alcohol…

2C:33-15.1 Report by Attorney General; taskforce. 4. a. (1) The Attorney General shall biannually issue a comprehensive report detailing the number of occurrences and other statistics, without revealing or including any personal identifying information, concerning first, second, …

2C:33-16 Bringing alcoholic beverages, cannabis items onto school property; disorderly person. 1. Any person of legal age to purchase alcoholic beverages or cannabis items, who, in the case of alcoholic beverages, knowingly and without the express written permission of the school…

2C:33-17 Availability of alcoholic beverages to underaged, offenses. 1. a. Anyone who purposely or knowingly offers or serves or makes available an alcoholic beverage to a person under the legal age for consuming alcoholic beverages or entices or encourages that person to drink a…

2C:33-19. Possession of remotely activated paging devices on school property, disorderly persons offense; exemptions 2. No person enrolled as a student of an elementary or secondary school, knowingly and without the express written permission of the school board, its delegated au…

2C:33-2. Disorderly conduct. 2C:33-2. Disorderly Conduct. a. Improper behavior. Except as otherwise provided in subsection c. of this section, a person is guilty of a petty disorderly persons offense, if with purpose to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessl…

2C:33-2.1. "Public place" defined; loitering to obtain or distribute CDS is a disorderly persons offense 1. a. As used in this section: "Public place" means any place to which the public has access, including but not limited to a public street, road, thoroughfare, sidewalk, bridg…

2C:33-2.2 Penalties, fines for parents, legal guardians demonstrating willful, wanton disregard, conduct of juvenile. 1. A parent or legal guardian having legal custody of a juvenile shall be: a. subject to a fine of $1,000, to be collected in a civil action by a summary proceedi…

2C:33-20. Use of remotely activated paging device during commission of certain crimes is a crime of fourth degree A person is guilty of a crime of the fourth degree if he uses a remotely activated paging device while engaged in the commission of, or an attempt to commit, or fligh…

2C:33-21 Interception or use of official communications. 1. Any person who intercepts any message or transmission made on or over any police, fire or emergency medical communications system, or any person who is the recipient of information so intercepted, and who uses the inform…

2C:33-22. Possession of emergency communications receiver 2. Any person who, while in the course of committing or attempting to commit a crime, including the immediate flight therefrom, possesses or controls a radio capable of receiving any message or transmission made on or over…

2C:33-23. Radar device not included 3. For purposes of P.L.1991, c.432 (C.2C:33-21 et seq.), the term "police, fire or emergency medical communications system" shall not include radar devices used to monitor vehicular speed. L.1991,c.432,s.3.

2C:33-23.1 License required for certain radio transmissions. 1. A person shall not: a. Make, or cause to be made, a radio transmission of energy in this State unless the person obtains a license, or an exemption from licensure, from the Federal Communications Commission pursuant …

2C:33-23.2 Violations, fourth-degree crime. 2. A person who violates the provisions of P.L.2005, c.293 as amended by P.L.2025, c.349 is guilty of a crime of the fourth degree. L.2005,c.293,s.2; amended 2025, c.349, s.2.

2C:33-23.3 Offense relative to access of information indicating the location of law enforcement vehicles. 1. a. (1) A person commits a disorderly persons offense if, without license or privilege to do so, he knowingly intercepts a signal transmitted by an automatic vehicle locati…

2C:33-24 "Act of graffiti." 2C:33-24. As used in this chapter, "act of graffiti" means the drawing, painting or making any mark or inscription on public or private real or personal property without the permission of the owner. amended 2014, c.69, s.3.

2C:33-26 Sale of motor vehicles on Sunday; exemption. 4. Except as provided in section 1 of P.L.2011, c.29 (C.39:10-38), a person who engages in the business of buying, selling, or exchanging motor vehicles or who opens a place of business and attempts to engage in such conduct o…

2C:33-27. Consumption of alcohol in restaurants 5. Consumption of alcohol in restaurants. a. No person who owns or operates a restaurant, dining room or other public place where food or liquid refreshments are sold or served to the general public, and for which premises a license…

2C:33-28 Solicitation, recruitment to join criminal street gang; crime, degrees, sentencing. 1. a. An actor who solicits or recruits another to join or actively participate in a criminal street gang with the knowledge or purpose that the person who is solicited or recruited will …

2C:33-29 Crime of gang criminality; "criminal street gang" defined; grading of offense. 1. a. A person is guilty of the crime of gang criminality if, while knowingly involved in criminal street gang activity, he commits, attempts to commit, or conspires to commit, whether as a pr…

2C:33-3 False public alarms. 2C:33-3. False Public Alarms. a. (1) (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person is guilty of a crime of the third degree if he initiates or circulates a report or warning of an impending fire, explosion, crime, catastrophe, emergency, …

2C:33-3.2 Fines for violation of N.J.S.2C:33-3. 3. a. Any person who violates the provisions of N.J.S.2C:33-3 shall be liable for a civil penalty of not less than $2,000 or actual costs incurred by or resulting from the law enforcement and emergency services response to the false…

2C:33-30 Crime of promotion of organized street crime; grading of offense. 2. a. A person promotes organized street crime if he conspires with others as an organizer, supervisor, financier or manager to commit any crime specified in chapters 11 through 18, 20, 33, 35, or 37 of Ti…

2C:33-31 Crime of dogfighting, penalties; definitions. 1. a. A person is guilty of dog fighting if that person knowingly: (1) keeps, uses, is connected with or interested in the management of, or receives money for the admission of a person to, a place kept or used for the purpos…

2C:33-32 Leader, financier of dog fighting network; penalties. 2. a. A person is a leader of a dog fighting network if he conspires with others in a scheme or course of conduct to unlawfully engage in dog fighting, as defined in section 1 of P.L.2015, c.85 (C.2C:33-31), as an org…

2C:33-4 Harassment. 2C:33-4. Harassment. Except as provided in subsection e., a person commits a petty disorderly persons offense if, with purpose to harass another, he: a. Makes, or causes to be made, one or more communications anonymously or at extremely inconvenient hours, or …

2C:33-4.1 Crime of cyber-harassment. 1. a. A person commits the crime of cyber-harassment if, while making one or more communications in an online capacity via any electronic device or through a social networking site and with the purpose to harass another, the person: (1) threat…

2C:33-4.2 Education, awareness of cyber-harassment, assistance to victims, promotion of prevention training, initiatives; public servants. 2. a. The Attorney General shall, through the Division of Violence Intervention and Victim Assistance in the Department of Law and Public Saf…

2C:33-7. Obstructing highways and other public passages a. A person, who, having no legal privilege to do so, purposely or recklessly obstructs any highway or other public passage whether alone or with others, commits a petty disorderly persons offense. "Obstructs" means renders …

2C:33-8. Disrupting meetings and processions A person commits a disorderly persons offense if, with purpose to prevent or disrupt a lawful meeting, procession or gathering, he does an act tending to obstruct or interfere with it physically. L.1978, c. 95, s. 2C:33-8, eff. Sept. 1…

2C:33-8.1 Definitions relative to disruption of funerals, violations, disorderly persons offense. 2. a. As used in this act: "funeral" means the ceremonies, processions and memorial services held in connection with the burial or cremation of the dead; and "demonstration" includes…

2C:33-9. Desecration of venerated objects A person commits a disorderly persons offense if he purposely desecrates any public monument, insignia, symbol, or structure, or place of worship or burial. "Desecrate" means defacing, damaging or polluting. L.1978, c. 95, s. 2C:33-9, eff…